 Samoa tsunami death toll rises to 164: officials
 03.10.2009 9:09  42 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: American, These, Samoa
The confirmed death toll from the devastating tsunamis that crashed into the Samoa islands and Tonga has risen to 164 with at least 16 more people unaccounted for, officials have said. There were 123 dead in Samoa, 32 in American Samoa...
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| American Samoa relief builds
03.10.2009 7:35 38 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: American, Duck, Nazi, National, Associated, Pres, Associated Press, The Associated, Guard, Samoa, American Samoa
MARK NIESSE The Associated Press HONOLULU - On a search-and-rescue mission in a tsunami-stricken American Samoa village, Capt. Nate Duff and his Hawaii Air National Guard troops waded through knee-deep swampland and under trucks hanging from trees in hopes of finding missing children. Duff's medical team was the first government relief agency to reach the fishing town of Leone following the tsunami, one of dozens of American rescue squads spread throughout the wrecked islands delivering personal help, food, tents and medical supplies. "The air stunk with ... hundreds of dead fish and animals, and rotting food and debris," Duff wrote in an e-mail to his unit Thursday. "It was very treacherous...
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| DNA on bloody clothes matches missing US diplomat
03.10.2009 7:35 53 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: American, Dutch, Rich, Bank, Police, Puerto, Caribbean, Bears, James
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The weeklong search for an American diplomat has taken a grim turn as investigators on the Dutch island of Curacao said DNA from bloody clothing strewn along a popular beach matched that of the missing man. Police and prosecutors in this palm-fringed corner of the Caribbean said forensic scientists have confirmed that blood-spattered clothes found on Baya Beach "definitely" belonged to James Hogan, a 49-year-old U.S. vice consul who vanished a week ago. Divers...
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| US government brings food, scientists, drugs and vehicles to American Samoa
03.10.2009 7:35 39 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: American, Duck, Nazi, National, Guard, Samoa, American Samoa
HONOLULU (AP) — On a search-and-rescue mission in a tsunami-stricken American Samoa village, Capt. Nate Duff and his Hawaii Air National Guard troops waded through knee-deep swampland and under trucks hanging from trees in hopes of finding missing children. Duff's medical team was the first government relief agency to reach the fishing town of Leone following the tsunami, one of dozens of American rescue squads spread throughout the wrecked islands delivering personal help, food,...
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| American Samoa relief efforts continue
03.10.2009 6:33 40 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: American, South, Arts, Rich, National, Pacific, Posted, Guard, Samoa, American Samoa, South Pacific
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Rick Rycroft, AP A child plays in a debris filled drain near the beach at Vailoa village, Samoa on Friday, three days after a deadly tsunami rolled through several South Pacific island nations. By Derrick DePledge, The Honolulu Advertiser Leone, American Samoa — Capt. Aaron Blanchard led a Army National Guard team yesterday afternoon into a grove thickly layered with mud, muck and debris. Hawaii soldiers here are moving from search and rescue to recovery, but this team, with their picks and shovels, were looking for a young boy from this western village still missing from Tuesday's earthquake and tsunami. Two of his...
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